<p>Currently I’m reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (personal reading), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (urgh), Shakespeare’s Richard II, and the Princeton Review SAT Bio (cramming for next Saturday!).</p>
<p>portrait? that’s rough…i’m just trying to finish heart of darkness and song of solomon.</p>
<p>I know someone who has to read 12 books (One of the was by Aristotle, I don’t remember the rest) during this trimester. @_@ She’s pretty busy.</p>
<p>why put your self through the pain</p>
<p>Hopeful_gtb - I loved Heart of Darkness. My AP Lit teacher ended up telling me that I was the only student she’d ever had that would admit to that, but it’s true. I think most people didn’t like it because it’s extremely dense, and a lot more like poetry than prose. Almost every line of the book is packed with meaning, so skimming doesn’t really cut it.</p>
<p>My reading load right now is [supposed to be] Heart of Darkness [but I’ve already finished it], ~20 pages of our college Euro textbook each night, a poem or two by Catullus each night [lololol I’m only including that because it takes some time for translating into English], and then I suppose personal reading is The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad, and Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [thanks doomster, lolololol].</p>
<p>Urgh, I’ve been slacking on my personal reading lately, and I have to read The Inferno and The Canterbury Tales by, like, tomorrow, too. On my own time, I have just a wee bit left in Guns, Germs, and Steel, and good bit left in Catch 22 (started a while ago but… stopped), Cosmos, Notes from the Underground, On the Genealogy of Morals, Dune, and Asimov’s entire Foundation series. </p>
<p>Normally I’d have this done in like a month but I’ve been stupid lately. ;/</p>
<p>My load is light though, compared to my past loads and compared to that of some of the people I’ve seen. I know one person who so far this year has read 300+ books (a good deal of them political and philosophy ones, so dense but short, but a number of 1,000+ page novels in there too!). Usually I read a solid 50-100 books a year, but like I said, I’ve been slacking lately…</p>
<p>And YAY for IV! Glad you’re reading it! ;D (Feynman is next though ;p)</p>
<p>Personal Reading:
-Fountainhead
-Big Bright Morning-James Frey
-Cloud Atlas</p>
<p>School Reading:
The Coquette</p>
<p>School Reading:
- this one stalin book
- the concise history of the russian revolution (I hate Pipes…)
- T. S. Eliot (this book of commentaries on The Hollowmen. It’s more complicated than the poem)
- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
- This book for French, like Tristess or something
- The cursed chemistry textbook. 30 pages per night!!</p>
<p>That’s a pretty big load for me XD I don’t read much~</p>
<p>school:
-gov textbook like a chapter a week 
-Lit- crime and punishment, but like 200 pages a week, almost done 
-stats- like a chapter a week
-Psych- again like a chapter a week
-physics- another chapter a week! haha</p>
<p>not much on my own though 
i have a few books on my desk though that i’ve been meaning to read since like forever</p>
<p>some of you guys are crazy readers :)</p>
<p>You guys are too intellectual… seriously. </p>
<p>I read thousands of pages this summer… except they were all pulp fiction and science fiction novels. </p>
<p>My “required” reading is pretty light. Only Hamlet for Lit.</p>
<p>
You’re reading that on your OWN TIME?!?!?
Ughghhgwlejkw that book is altogether too repetitive in its sentiments… Urhghg…</p>
<p>i have a very heavy load…but not the ‘reading’ kind ;)</p>
<p>I thought my reading was tought:
excerpt of beowulf
grendel
when bad things happen to good people
ap euro text (chapter a week)
ap art history (chapter a week)</p>
<p>AP EURO
HUGE textbook (with no pictures! ). i chapter/week
lots of short readings (Plato, Erasmus, Aquinas, Dante, etc)
Mann’s “The Magic Mountain”
AP HUMAN GEO
laughably easy book, but a chapter every 2 weeks
AP BIO
chapter every2 weeks. EASY!
AP LIT
short stories
various literature (Shakespeare and a few others) </p>
<p>I’m also reading “The Divine Comedy” on my own.</p>
<p>Argh, who on earth would choose to read dante’s drivel in their spare time [oh yes, I’m being a wag here, don’t take srsly [inb4x] if you may] – it’s so boooooring and self-assured and pathetic; I have half a mind to discover the secret of resurrection to bring back Dante and punch him… in the face.</p>
<p>Oh, and I also forgot to mention that I have to read about a chapter a week from my Psych textbook, and that I’m on-again off-again in reading [these.](<a href=“Military Medicine”>http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/milmed/index.html</a>)</p>
<p>Dmstr - pls dnt vr typ wth n vwls vr gn… srsly???</p>
<p>Oh btw I got home now, so we should talk. lol.</p>
<p>Maths:
Cracking the AP Calculus Exam (PR)
US History:
The Politics of War - Walter Karp
English Lang:
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (please go burn)</p>
<p>Self-Reading:
CollegeBoard Official SAT Prep Book
The Hot Zone - Richard Preston</p>
<p>My teachers this year must think we’re all idiots.</p>
<p>My only required reading is in English, and it’s the book Into Thin Air. We only read in class also. It actually makes me mad. It’s almost like an insult. The reading is simple. I’m ahead and I started reading late. </p>
<p>Oh nd for Academic Decathalon I’m reading Bless Me Ultima</p>
<p>None. I don’t read.</p>